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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py
index 62e600eaa..27def1004 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py
@@ -45,6 +45,26 @@ class SuiteRequirements(Requirements):
         return exclusions.open()
 
     @property
+    def standard_cursor_sql(self):
+        """Target database passes SQL-92 style statements to cursor.execute()
+        when a statement like select() or insert() is run.
+
+        A very small portion of dialect-level tests will ensure that certain
+        conditions are present in SQL strings, and these tests use very basic
+        SQL that will work on any SQL-like platform in order to assert results.
+
+        It's normally a given for any pep-249 DBAPI that a statement like
+        "SELECT id, name FROM table WHERE some_table.id=5" will work.
+        However, there are dialects that don't actually produce SQL Strings
+        and instead may work with symbolic objects instead, or dialects that
+        aren't working with SQL, so for those this requirement can be marked
+        as excluded.
+
+        """
+
+        return exclusions.open()
+
+    @property
     def on_update_cascade(self):
         """"target database must support ON UPDATE..CASCADE behavior in
         foreign keys."""